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most citedA Survey of Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

14 citations · 29 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2026

MUNIChus: Multilingual News Image Captioning Benchmark

Yuji Chen, Alistair Plum, Hansi Hettiarachchi +4

The goal of news image captioning is to generate captions by integrating news article content with corresponding images, highlighting the relationship between textual context and v…

cs.AI2025

A Neuro-Symbolic Multi-Agent Approach to Legal-Cybersecurity Knowledge Integration

Chiara Bonfanti, Alessandro Druetto, Cataldo Basile +2

The growing intersection of cybersecurity and law creates a complex information space where traditional legal research tools struggle to deal with nuanced connections between cases…

cs.LG2025

Evaluating Open-Source Vision-Language Models for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

Saroj Basnet, Shafkat Farabi, Tharindu Ranasinghe +2

Recent advances in open-source vision-language models (VLMs) offer new opportunities for understanding complex and subjective multimodal phenomena such as sarcasm. In this work, we…

cs.CL2025

A Survey on Multilingual Mental Disorders Detection from Social Media Data

Ana-Maria Bucur, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe +1

The increasing prevalence of mental disorders globally highlights the urgent need for effective digital screening methods that can be used in multilingual contexts. Most existing s…

cs.CL2024★ 14 cited

A Survey of Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

Shafkat Farabi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Diptesh Kanojia +2

Sarcasm is a rhetorical device that is used to convey the opposite of the literal meaning of an utterance. Sarcasm is widely used on social media and other forms of computer-mediat…

cs.CL2024

Rater Cohesion and Quality from a Vicarious Perspective

Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sujan Dutta +5

Human feedback is essential for building human-centered AI systems across domains where disagreement is prevalent, such as AI safety, content moderation, or sentiment analysis. Man…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Towards Generalized Offensive Language Identification

Alphaeus Dmonte, Tejas Arya, Tharindu Ranasinghe +1

The prevalence of offensive content on the internet, encompassing hate speech and cyberbullying, is a pervasive issue worldwide. Consequently, it has garnered significant attention…

cs.CL2024

A Federated Learning Approach to Privacy Preserving Offensive Language Identification

Marcos Zampieri, Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe

The spread of various forms of offensive speech online is an important concern in social media. While platforms have been investing heavily in ways of coping with this problem, the…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

A Text-to-Text Model for Multilingual Offensive Language Identification

Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri

The ubiquity of offensive content on social media is a growing cause for concern among companies and government organizations. Recently, transformer-based models such as BERT, XLNE…

cs.CL2023★ 13 cited

Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers: Unifying Human and Machine Disagreement on What is Offensive

Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sujan Dutta, Tharindu Ranasinghe +3

Offensive speech detection is a key component of content moderation. However, what is offensive can be highly subjective. This paper investigates how machine and human moderators d…